YAMMER

• Schlumps From F-Man in YAMMER (51 days old)

  A few weeks ago New York magazine ran an excellent article comparing the styles of comedy of Larry David of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ fame, and Woody Allen. http://nymag.com/movies/features/56930/ Both J… more

• Yes Men From F-Man in YAMMER (95 days old)

  In the aftermath of the death of Michael Jackson (self proclaimed King of Pop), certain quarters have drawn a parallel between his demise and that of the King (proclaimed by everyone except Chuck D)..… more

• Escape Porn From F-Man in YAMMER (261 days old)

  A new format has begun showing up on our TV screens. It has been around in some guise or another for the last couple of years, but last weekend it seemed to reach its apotheosis. I am talking about th… more

• The World Turned Day-Glo From F-Man in YAMMER (315 days old)

  Music is in rude health. This is a wonderful thing. Admittedly it means nothing. Music is part of the fabric of life. As soon as man figured out how to stretch animal hide over a piece of wood or whit… more

• Less is More From F-Man in YAMMER (361 days old)

  A friend of mine sent me a link to a website today (http://vimeo.com/2245449). On it, a bunch of guys have posted a home-made documentary called ‘How to Fix the Music Industry’, a hoary old subject an… more

• THE SEMANTICS OF LOVE AND HATE From F-Man in YAMMER (375 days old)

  In the overwhelming surge of global delight which has followed Barack Obama’s success in the US election, other decisions made by the American public on polling day have received slightly less coverag… more

• POINTLESS From F-Man in YAMMER (406 days old)

  One man’s name seems to be coming up with surprising regularity during this current economic whirlwind. That’s the author of ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ Tom Wolfe. His coining of the term ‘Masters o… more

• The Unknown Painter From F-Man in YAMMER (436 days old)

  He first came to my attention two years ago. I was wandering around Tate Britain marvelling at how much my taste in Art has changed as I’ve grown older. Paintings which once filled me with glee and sa… more

• Look Who’s Talking From F-Man in YAMMER (438 days old)

  The first time it came to my notice was in Bergen New Jersey. I was watching the summer blockbuster ‘Independence Day’ accompanied by an English colleague of mine, a man of relatively gentle dispositi… more

• The Greatest From F-Man in YAMMER (441 days old)

  I’m recovering from two sleepless nights. Political junkie that I am I found myself waking up at some ungodly hour of the morning to hear the lead speeches from the Republican convention (I’d done the… more

• 2012 From F-Man in YAMMER (451 days old)

  Dear Boris, I expect you must be getting quite a few of these letters right now... “2012 - Opening Ceremony - what the hell are we going to do?” Fear not, or as the saying goes... “The only thi… more

• Chaos for Chaos' sake - Notes on 'The Dark Knight'. From F-Man in YAMMER (478 days old)

  I have to admit, I am still slightly appalled with myself for buying into the hype and dragging my butt to see this movie in the first place. But it was half-price Tuesdays at The Notting Hill Coronet… more

• No Short Cuts From F-Man in YAMMER (479 days old)

  I just finished reading some Trollope this week - ‘The Way We Live Now’ - allegedly his masterpiece. Seven hundred and sixty seven pages... and let me tell you, getting through the last hundred was b… more

• WHO ARE THE BAD GUYS? From F-Man in YAMMER (486 days old)

  So they finally caught Karadzic this morning. Only thirteen years too late. He, for those of you not up your Balkan history, was the floppy-haired thug and former psycho-analyst working under Milosovi… more

• CHEESE FARMERS From F-Man in YAMMER (499 days old)

  As I lie here, leg raised due to snapped tendons in my right calf - an injury sustained by leaping a barrier in Hyde Park in a misguided attempt to avoid four lanes of traffic bearing towards me, four… more

• Diddums From F-Man in YAMMER (543 days old)

  So I’m at the Baftas, not the awards but the aftershow, the feeding of the three-thousand. I have no legitimate reason for being there but find myself sat at the table reserved for the produce… more

• Barely Legal From F-Man in YAMMER (543 days old)

  I recently spent a week trying to seduce a twenty-eight year old girl. She insisted on thinking of herself as a 'girl' despite my attempts to encourage her otherwise. Even as I tried I knew my effort… more

• NEVER HAD IT SO BAD From F-Man in YAMMER (612 days old)

  As a young man I fell out of love with the Theatre. At a time of Punk Rock, the explosive movies of Scorcese, Coppola and early De Palma, the television of Bochco, Bleasdale and Jimmy McGovern, a nigh… more

• MAD MEN SAD MEN From F-Man in YAMMER (621 days old)

  This week has seen the debut in the UK of the television series ‘Madmen’. It has been fan-fared and feted to an equal degree so I felt it only my duty to check it out. Especially as it had been descri… more

• Merry Xmas - War Has Started. From F-Man in YAMMER (692 days old)

  Christmas began early this year... “Around August,” my father declared. The build-up was gradual, peppered with forecasts of credit-crunches and harsh times ahead. On the one hand we were being advise… more

• Greed 2 - Aspiration 3 From F-Man in YAMMER (729 days old)

  The morning after the night before. A quick spin through the news pages and the blogs and comment sections are on fire. The reason? England’s defeat at the hands of previously considered lowly (… more

• Sophisticated Boom Boom From F-Man in YAMMER (797 days old)

  I gleefully returned to the obstreperous behaviour of my teenage youth last night. I was standing outside a bar which 15 years ago was the only decent bar in the neighbourhood, but which has n… more

• Wino From F-Man in YAMMER (812 days old)

  I seem to have gone off pop music again. Hopefully this is another temporary lapse but I’m not so sure. I found myself in HMV yesterday staring at the racks of new product thinking, I don’t really nee… more

• Numbers From F-Man in YAMMER (948 days old)

  I feel a degree of reluctance this morning as I put words onto paper. The shootings at Virginia Tech will no doubt inspire a gazillion bloggers and newspaper journalists to commit their thoughts. The … more

• A Narrow Escape From F-Man in YAMMER (963 days old)

  For those of you who took the time to read my last post, you may be interested to discover a little more about the flighty 'club girl' Anouska... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article159… more

• Club Girls From F-Man in YAMMER (973 days old)

  I was struck by a thought last Saturday, a few actually. Normally such thoughts wouldn't bother me, I'd brush them off, dismiss them, move on. But for some reason they stuck around. At 4:08pm on Sunda… more

• Nostalgia From F-Man in YAMMER (987 days old)

  Sitting here with a blocked ear, the result of a virus rather than any rock and roll-induced tinitis, I find myself, not for the first time, moved to consider the elegiac passage of time. Last night I… more

• The Ladder From F-Man in YAMMER (1009 days old)

  I haven't written or added anything to this blog for some time now. Bad blogger - slap me. I would imagine this is the case for many people who initially embraced this medium with such gusto. Blogs ar… more

• A-Grade From F-Man in YAMMER (1175 days old)

  "It's the same everywhere you look; not only this place, but all the provincial universities are going the same way. Not London, I suppose, and not the Scottish ones. But my God, go to most places and… more

• Rediscovering Dulouz From F-Man in YAMMER (1228 days old)

  I don’t know how this happened. Actually I do. I was taken in by the artwork, the Flamingo Originals. Modern Classics, silhouettes against paper-cuts, bold and simple, a must-have series. I’m talking … more

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